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Raptorial   /rˌæptˈɔriəl/   Listen
Raptorial

adjective
1.
Relating to or characteristic of birds of prey.
2.
Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey.  Synonyms: predatory, rapacious, ravening, vulturine, vulturous.  "The rapacious wolf" , "Raptorial birds" , "Ravening wolves" , "A vulturine taste for offal"



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"Raptorial" Quotes from Famous Books



... a short step from this figure to the ancient sun symbol with which the eagle and other raptorial birds are intimately associated. The figure represented in plate CXXXIII, c, is a symbolic bird in which the different parts are directly comparable with the other bird pictographs already described. One may easily detect in it the two wings, the semicircular rain-cloud figures, and the ...
— Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 • Jesse Walter Fewkes


Words linked to "Raptorial" :   aggressive, raptor


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